On 5 Mar 2005 11:31:37 -0800, "randau"

I run both Norton AntiVirus and AdAware spyware scans on a
regular basis. But, thanks for your reply anyway.

You say that as if this excludes the possibility of active malware.

Hah! But seriously, folks... ;-)

The behaviour you describe sounds as if the integration point is most
likely to be within the Explorer shell. The best tool to enumerate
and reversably disable such integrations / intrusions is Shell
Extension Viewer... I'll Google that for you:

http://freehost14.websamba.com/nirso...s/shexview.zip

I have a hunch you might find it's NAV itself (or its LiveUpdate
component) that is the problem here.

You can also do these tests, and report back:
- Safe Mode Cmd Only
- Safe Mode
- Normal Mode with all startup items suppressed in MSConfig



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